<p>Hello folks i hope all of you are fine. I have a question: Why doesn´t Harvard and most of the Ivy League Universities offer the business management major as an undregraduate degree. I think just two of them do: University of Pennsylvania and Cornell university. Is it that they are too exclusive for offering it? I expect your replies.</p>
<p>They should do offer it. I think so</p>
<p>BBA is not really an academic degree- more pre-professional training for managerial roles (non-technical) that the ivies don't want to get into... I would recommend that students interested in corporate finance take an accounting class either in college or one of the summers early on at a local university/CC. Accounting is the lingua franca of business, and a good background in financial accounting is very marketable. If one wants to do quant finance (equity & FICC derivatives, market neutral & stat arb hedge funds, etc.) then math and CS are key. Quant is decidedly out of fashion at the moment but could be back in a couple years, post-credit crunch.</p>
<p>Most ivies and many Private schools do not offer it because they don't feel that a college students should receive a professional education first. They feel that an undergraduate degree is a degree with teaches you how to think critically as opposed to how to manage stocks. I agree with them.</p>
<p>Not that it matters. Top econ students at Harvard have the same opportunities coming out of college that business majors from UPenn have.</p>
<p>Harvard believes that a liberal arts education is the best preparation for life. That's why they resisted having an engineering school for so long as well. I'm wary enough of business degrees as is it. I think having some life experience and a good all round education before going into business is a better idea than getting locked into it at 18 or 19. For those students who are positive about their careers early on there are programs and other schools for them.</p>
<p>Yea, agree with mathmom. Harvard and Yale lean towards liberal arts education whose goal is not professional and technical mastery, but the commitment to lifelong learning pleasure.</p>
<p>Btw, Wharton doesn't provide BBA. It's BSc in Economics with your own concentration.</p>
<p>So whay should i do if i want to study or get admitted in a Ivy League University to study something likely to business management taht they can offer?</p>
<p>If you're definite about business management and you want your education to focus primarily on business and the job you will be doing in the future AKA a very pre-professional approach to education, apply to Penn or Cornell's programs. </p>
<p>Then again, any Ivy League school can get you what you want and more.</p>